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Individual Differences in Visual Navigation

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Users bring to the computer a wide variety of categories and factors individual to them, such as relevant experience, domain knowledge, and a number of cognitive abilities and styles. Empirical evidence and theoretical studies in the literature suggest that there may be some profound connections between visual user interfaces and a number of cognitive factors that have been extensively studied in related disciplines.

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    Chaomei Chen PhD, MSc, BSc

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Chen, C. (1999). Individual Differences in Visual Navigation. In: Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3622-4_5

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